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New York: A.A. Wyn, 1948. First American edition but printed in Great Britain with price in pounds sterling. Duodecimo (7.5" x 5.25"), xi & 159 pages, the title page printed in red & black. Publisher's yellow cloth lettered in brown on the spine, in pictorial dus jacket.
Slight shelf wear, otherwise near fine in soiled dust jacket, browned at the spine, with edge wear including nicks & small losses, a good or better example.
The original Chinese edition, "Hsing Shih Heng Yen" [Common Tales to Rouse the World], was published in 1627. The tales include Love in a Junk; Brother or Bride?; The Everlasting Couple; & The Mandarin-Duck Girdle.

NY: Wyn, 1948. First American edn. 8vo, pp. 159. Little feded yellow cloth, no dj. Inscribed by Acton to poet and editor Barbara Howes with her bookplate: For Barbara | to beguile the weary | hours, in anticipation | of a happy event. |With warmest wishes | from | Harold Acton" Included in an original photo (8-1/4 x 8 in) by Cecil Beaton (with his name stamp on the verso.). 17th century Chinese literature, previously published in English by the Golden Cockerel Press.